IDF: Operation underway at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital amid intel on Hamas activity

Israeli forces have launched a raid at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, a military spokesperson has said, with reports of heavy gunfire from the complex. Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesperson Daniel Hagari said early on Monday that troops were “conducting a high-precision operation in limited areas of Shifa hospital”. He said the raid was “based on intelligence information indicating the use of the hospital by senior Hamas terrorists to conduct and promote terrorist activity”. In a video posted online, Hagari said the raid followed “concrete intelligence that demanded immediate action”. “We know that senior Hamas terrorists have regrouped inside the Shifa hospital and are using it to command attacks against Israel.”